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Lansing, MICH. Michigan State Housing Development Authority, in collaboration with the Michigan Homeowner Assistance Nonprofit Housing Corporation , launches the Step Forward Down Payment Assistance program, providing $20 million in loan funds to assist in neighborhood stabilization and prevent foreclosures in areas of the state that still reflect high rates of delinquency and foreclosure, negative equity, bank-owned properties and short sales.
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Michigan Lawyers Weekly The Michigan resource for legal news, up-to-date court opinions and the latest law practice news and views. Where a real estate agent repeatedly and explicitly stated, incorrectly, that an adjacent garden lot was included in a residential property sale, the agent was foreclosed from raising as a defense to a post-sale suit for fraud and misrepresentation that the buyers could have determined from information available to them that the garden lot was not included in the sale.
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I hope everyone had a good Labor Day! I didn't enjoy the fact that my Michigan Wolverines lost. But my sister, a Michigan fan by birth, started her freshman year at Michigan State last week and only rubbed it in a little when we saw her on Sunday.
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National Headlines

Tom McLaughlin, senior vice president/mortgage loan department manager for First Northern Bank, is pleased to announce that Sarah del Rosario has joined the mortgage loan team as assistant vice president/mortgage loan officer. Del Rosario brings more than 14 years of financial services and mortgage lending experience to First Northern Bank.
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When millions of Hongkongers are still living in public housing, it's no wonder the Lion Rock spirit is ailing Peter Kammerer says the cloud of gloom over Hongkongers is understandable when so many still struggle to make ends meet and must rely on government housing. Hong Kong's economy is still too dependent on the tourism and retail sectors The Lion Rock spirit used to be everywhere in Hong Kong.
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IRA charitable donations can replace taxable required distributions - and it's an even better idea under the new tax law. You may be surprised to learn who's been participating in the wealth-building machine that is the stock market.
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This May 21, 2018, photo shows a row of dishwashers for sale Lowe's Home Improvement store in East Rutherford, N.J. photocredit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Lowe's is slated to report its third quarter earnings on November 20, wherein a 3.4% gain in revenues and a 6.7% drop in earnings per share is expected. The home improvement retailer has had a tricky FY 2018, with unseasonably cold weather dampening its first quarter results.
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The agent in British Columbia, Canada has also been suspended for four months after helping an intern craft an excuse for a late paper Fake sick notes may work for school, but not in real estate: Canadian agent Jaideep Singh Puri caught a 4-month suspension after helping an intern of his forge a doctor's note to cover up for a late assignment in a real estate licensing course. The Real Estate Council of British Columbia handed agent Puri a 120-day suspension and penalty fines after it discovered that a doctor's note Puri wrote for his intern was fraudulent on several counts, CBC News reports .
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